Fuel: Alphabet City Magazine 13

Erscheinungsjahr 2008
ISBN: 978-0-262-11325-0
Verlag: Penguin Random House LLC

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 352 Seiten, Format (B × H): 128 mm x 168 mm, Gewicht: 419 g

Reihe: Alphabet City

Writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future and the radical reinvention of energy that would make it possible.How will the world work in the pos-toil, post-coal future? Our transition could take the form of disastrous collapses in economic, political, and economic systems—or of a radical reinvention of energy. We could relapse into a new Dark Ages, or we could shift to a new economic model and international order that's not based on (the appropriately named) “fossil” fuels but on renewable energy. No matter what, global warming and resource scarcity will force us to do something. To avert environmental and economic disaster, we'll have to think beyond the weekly fluctuations in the price of gasoline and consider larger matters. In Fuel, writers and artists imagine the transition to a carbon-free future: an architect plans “Velo-city,” a network of elevated bikeways; a designer models a perfectly internalized, tail-chasing energy system; an urbanist examines the new "Oil Cities" in Dubai and Saudi Arabia; a photographer documents the social and environmental damage done by the oil industry in Nigeria; and an architect proposes that oil rigs be turned into sanctuaries for marine and avian wildlife. Reading Fuel, we read our current energy moment in the broader context of a range of possible futures.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Knechtel, John

Weitere Mitwirkende

Knechtel, John

Szeman, Imre

Burtynsky, Edward

Collyer, Robin

White, Mason

Przybylski, Maya

Osodi, George

Thün, Geoffrey

Velikov, Kathy

Ingelevics, Vid

Hazoumé, Romauld

Hardwicke, Chris

Tarnowski, Candice

Doran, Kelly

Graham, Sara

Kirkbride, Robert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Geschichte der Kunstwissenschaft und Kunstkritik
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert Pop Art, Minimalismus

Über Autor(innen)

Knechtel, John
John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media in Toronto.

Knechtel, John
John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media in Toronto.

John Knechtel is Director of Alphabet City Media in Toronto.